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Word: pseudonymously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Norman Kerry, 60, dashing hero of silent films (The Phantom of the Opera, The Hunchback of Notre Dame); of a liver ailment; in Los Angeles. In 1939 Kerry enlisted in the French Foreign Legion under the pseudonym Heinrich van der Kerry of Rotterdam, saw action on the Maginot Line, returned to the U.S. in 1941 after the fall of France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 23, 1956 | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...author used as a pseudonym a Washington professor's name, writing the article to burlesque the attempts of certain schools to falsify their historical backgrounds. "why are we doing this?" he said in the article. "Our reason is to make the whole battle for historical precedence so foolish that the Association of American Colleges or some similarly comprehensive agency will devise a clear standard for establishing the founding dates of colleges and universities...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Washington College Seeks Harvard's Title | 10/7/1955 | See Source »

...opening journey through a troubled corner of The Company's world brought Author Edson McCann (pseudonym for "a government scientist") a $6,500 contest prize as 1955's best science-fiction story. But, with its minimum of electronic gadgetry and with no space excursions at all, Preferred Risk stays close to the ground and takes a jitney ride along the broad highway charted by George Orwell six years ago in 1984. Author McCann, throwing politics away as excess baggage, just zips along, fast, wry, and sometimes ingenious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Brother, Inc. | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...amateur, at that) is not of our era, with its low-keyed police efficiency. In all Europe there is only one man whose intellect can cope with the man who for ten years has pilfered art treasures without leaving the police any more of a clue than his pseudonym, Flambeau. To play this sort of thing in any but the Edwardian dress and spirit is as an acronistic as expecting Sherlock Holmes to track Dr. Moriarity with radar and an all-point bulletin. Still, Guinness and Peter Finch, as Flambeau, do their best to ignore the modern trappings of police...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: The Detective | 3/8/1955 | See Source »

...persuaded his able Minister of Finance, Edgar Faure, to move over to the Quai d'Orsay. Faure, who was Premier once himself (for 40 days in 1952) and would like to be again, is a lawyer and econo mist, a moderately successful writer of mystery stories (under the pseudonym Edgar Sanday), and a backer of the late EDC. His elevation to Foreign Minister is plainly part of Mendès' effort to stave off his threatening tumble from power by a gesture to the country's "European" wing. But agile as Mendès-France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Juggler | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

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